Pottery Workers in a China Warehouse. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with a view of pottery workers in a china warehouse.
Pottery Workshop. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with a view of a pottery workshop. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Pottery Yard and Saggars. Photographed by William Blake.
View of a pot bank factory yard and saggars.
Potting Shop. Handlers.
Pottery factory interior depicting a scene in a teapot making shop with men and women putting handles on teapots.
These workers were known as handlers.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...
Preparation of Clay.
Pottery factory interior with a view of two men wedging clay.
Wedging was the process of removing pockets of air from the clay and ensuring consistant texture.
The man in the picture is forcing ...
Preparing Clay.
Pottery factory interior showing workers preparing clay in a slip house.
The man on the left is working on a filter press. The man on the right is using a pug mill.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery ...
Printer at a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior with a view of a potter's printer at work. He is printing transfers using a 'press print' and an engraved copper plate. Ink from the engraving is pressed onto very thin tissue ...
Printers at work, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view inside a print workshop. They are printing transfers using a 'press print' and an engraved copper plate. Ink from the engraving is pressed onto very thin tissue paper ...
Printers at Work.
Pottery factory interior taken in a print workshop.
The printers are making transfers using engraved copper plates.
Ink from the engraving is pressed onto very thin tissue paper using a press called ...
Printing and Applying Transfers.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a print shop.
A line of presses print transfers as women apply the prints to ware.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
Running Out A Potters Frit Kiln. 1937. Photographed by William Blake.
Pottery workers "Running Out A Frit Kiln". Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Saggar House at Maddock's.
Pottery factory interior with a view of the saggar house at Maddock's pot bank, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
The workers in the picture are in the process of placing wares into saggars in preparation for ...
Saggar House. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior of the saggar house with two men at work emptying ware out of the saggar after firing. The white dust is either alumina or silica sand which was used as a bedding material for the clay ...
Saggar Makers. Circa 1930
A saggar maker and his apprentice at work in a tile factory in the Potteries. The apprentice would be known as a 'saggar makers bottom knocker'. The saggars were made of marl, which was hard wearing and ...
Saggar Makers. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with saggar makers at work. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Saggar making at a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior showing two men and a boy saggar making. Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and smoke during bottle oven firing. ...
Saggar making, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a saggar maker finishing a saggar.
Taken at Sutherland China, Normacot Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery ...
Saggar Making.
Pottery factory interior showing a saggar maker and a saggar maker's bottom knocker at work.
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and ...